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Later in the day, Lemon became somewhat unglued when guest Lewis again brought up the example of Cruz and his wife being hounded by a left-wing mob out of the restaurant.

“Don, if they started following you around a restaurant and running you out of places ...” Lewis began. But Lemon interjected, saying, “But that doesn’t mean that people don’t get to object. That’s your right as an American to object. It’s covered in the First Amendment. It’s like the first one!”

When Lewis continued to make the case that there is a difference between free speech and bullying a man and his wife into fleeing a public restaurant, Lemon started screaming.

Will you let me finish? Matt, please! Let me finish,” Lemon shouted.

“Bring it on. Mind if I have a drink?” Lewis asked.

“You can do whatever you want. You can leave the show if you want,” Lemon fired back.

“I’m not going to do that,” Lewis said.

“Shut up and let me do it,” Lemon snarled.

With the floor to himself, Lemon launched into a full-throated defense of mob action:

“In the Constitution, you can protest whenever and wherever you want. It doesn’t tell you that you can’t do it in a restaurant, that you can’t do it on a football field. It doesn’t tell you that you can’t do it on a cable news — you can do it wherever you want.”

“To call people mobs because they are exercising their constitutional right is just beyond the pale,” Lemon said before cutting to a commercial.